Production-block:
B-17F-55-BO: 42-29467 to 42-29531
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 99th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 346th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 98A & 1132
History of
B-17 42-29492 / Ramblin’ Wreck
Delivered Denver 23/12/42; Salina 5/1/43; Morrison 3/2/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 20/2/43; Missing in Action Gerbini 5/7/43 with Graham, Garner, Dobmeyer, Schnellbacher, Ciovacco, Lloyd, Edwards; (7 Killed in Action); Finnegan, Shafran, Grantham (3 Prisoner of War). Missing Air Crew Report 98A & 1132. RAMBLIN’ WRECK.
Last updated: 21. August 2021
B-17 42-29492 / Ramblin’ Wreck Crew
Position | Rank | Name | Status | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
P | 1LT | Charles M. Graham | KIA | - |
CP | 2LT | Eldon R. Garner | KIA | - |
NAV | 2LT | Paul F. Dobmeyer | KIA | - |
BOMB | 2LT | Roy E. Schnellbacher | KIA | - |
ENG/TT | T/SGT | John S. Finnegan | POW | - |
RO | S/SGT | Albert Shafran | POW | - |
BT | S/SGT | Alden E. Grantham | POW | - |
WG | S/SGT | James A. Ciovacco | KIA | - |
WG | S/SGT | Walter E. Edwards | KIA | - |
TG | S/SGT | Kenneth E. Lloyd | KIA | - |
26. November 2021 access_time 3:04
My fathers plane,he passed away in 1991,landed on a sicily farm and held by a farmer’s shotgun until the germans picked him up